trophywife
Crew Member
i think its a 27' plus grady disease. it has spread throughout the coast too. cant see over the pilothouse
Right rod to rocks/shore
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More like can't see through the ski boat windshield framei think its a 27' plus grady disease. it has spread throughout the coast too. cant see over the pilothouse
searun
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Like you, I prefer when possible to go somewhere with fewer boats. Where I fish, that isn't always possible at times. It can get really busy.definitely happens sometimes. Lots of places are pretty much "combat fishing" and not that different than some of the meat hole spots on the more popular rivers. It's just disappointing when that
Regardless, it doesn't make me want to go down island to fish spots where there are >50 boats and sometimes >100 boats... I don't fish the Stamp or the Vedder during steelhead season for the same reasons. I feel sorry for nice people trying to get into this sport but start their fishing in areas where it's super busy.
That said, if everyone plays by the Right Rod to Rocks rule its really easy to fish in areas with a number of boats. Despite best of intentions, its also pretty likely under those circumstances for someone to slip up - if we are kind to one another and work together its fairly easy to carve out a good day on the water.
Macdeep
Active Member
With the RR to Shore, does this still apply when fishing off shore but still within sight of land? Thinking of spots off the West coast and even some places on ECVI where you're not focused on structure close to shore - Kitty Coleman etc.
Last time I was on the "Highway", it seemed like it was just chaos at the "hot spot". Fortunately only about 20 boats, not 200, and people were relatively spread out, but people were on tack N/S, E/W and every direction in between to take passes over a couple rocks that come up to ~150ft out of 250ft of water. And there was definitely a "feeding frenzy" mentality on most boats - if there was a fish on, at least 2-3 boats would make dramatic course changes toward the boat with the fish on. This happened for each of the 3 days we were out there and just seems to be how it's fished at that spot.
Last time I was on the "Highway", it seemed like it was just chaos at the "hot spot". Fortunately only about 20 boats, not 200, and people were relatively spread out, but people were on tack N/S, E/W and every direction in between to take passes over a couple rocks that come up to ~150ft out of 250ft of water. And there was definitely a "feeding frenzy" mentality on most boats - if there was a fish on, at least 2-3 boats would make dramatic course changes toward the boat with the fish on. This happened for each of the 3 days we were out there and just seems to be how it's fished at that spot.
Damn Ugly
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We were commenting this year that Grady's are increasingly the BMW/Tesla's of the boating world. Definitely did not come standard equipped with turn signals or rear view mirrors. No offense to any polite/respectful/socially-aware SFBC Grady/Tesla/BMW owners of course.i think its a 27' plus grady disease. it has spread throughout the coast too. cant see over the pilothouse
searun
Well-Known Member
Offshore is a whole other world of hurt - generally when we are on the Big Bank people try to tack up/down (east/west) with the current. There's always going to be someone going across the usual tack - so head on swivel time. As for people who zero in on boats playing fish - well, you can't fix stupid.
Tight fit between the green can and the closest red can
